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Albrecht Dürer
Saint Eustace (B. 57; M., Holl. 60; S.M.S. 32) , 1501 (Executed)
Lot #30 |
2013-01-29 |
Christie's, New York
Albrecht Durer: Masterpieces from a Private Collection
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Auction Details
Auction house: Christie's
Auction number: 2778
Auction name: Albrecht Durer: Masterpieces from a Private Collection
Auction type: Fine Art
Location: New York
Start date: 2013-01-29
End date: 2013-01-29
Currency: USD
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Lot Description
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Genre: Renaissance Art
Department: Prints & Multiples
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Dimensions: 14 x 10¼ in. (357 x 260 mm.)
Item measurements:
Height In Centimeters:
26
Width In Centimeters:
35.7
Height In Inches:
10.24
Width In Inches:
14.02
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Year notes: Executed circa 1501.
Provenance
Provenance<br> <br> <br> <br> Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth, Derbyshire (cf. L. 718 & 719); Christie's, London,<br> <br> Old Master Prints from Chatsworth<br> <br> , 5 December 1985, lot 12 (£190,000).
Catalog summary
Albrecht Dürer Saint Eustace (B. 57; M., Holl. 60; S.M.S. 32) engraving, circa 1501, watermark High Crown (M. 20), a superb, early Meder b impression, very rich and black, yet printing with astonishing clarity, with burr in the trees and elsewhere, with thread margins on three sides, trimmed on or just within the platemark below but retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the subject, laid down along the edges onto an 18th century album sheet, a small surface abrasion on the muzzle of the second dog from the right, generally in very good, original condition P. 14 x 10¼ in. (357 x 260 mm.) S. 14 1/8 x 10 15/16 in. (358 x 262 mm.)